Charles Ciumei KC

Has a practice covering all aspects of employment with a commercial aspect, particularly focused on trade secrets/confidential information and the financial services sector, including investment banking, private equity, hedge funds (including algorithmic/quantitative strategies), insurance, inter-dealer brokers, and Lloyd’s brokers. Expertise in the following areas: trade secrets and confidential information; restraint of trade (restrictive covenants); ‘team move’ cases; breach of fiduciary duties; bonus claims; profit share and carried interest claims; whistleblowing claims; jurisdictional disputes; unfair and wrongful dismissal; discrimination; transfer of undertakings (TUPE); industrial relations and trade unions. Experience of LCIA arbitration. Has also appeared before the Administrative Tribunal of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. Admitted to the register of practitioners of the DIFC Court (Dubai, UAE). Appointed to the list of Special Advocates by the Attorney General.

Bar Vocational Course (1991); City University, London (1990 Diploma in Law); Wadham College, Oxford (BA Hons 2(1) Experimental Psychology).